Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> you don't need an infinite amount of paper, except that they work with >> binary rather than decimal, so people think "0.1 + 0.2 ought to be >> exactly 0.3, why isn't it??", and blame floats. > > Oh, if we only had eight fingers on our hand...
We already have one nibble and a carry bit, and it didn't help... > > Scheme, though doesn't force the implementation to use binary. It could > use trinary or sexagesimal for all Scheme cares. The application > shouldn't care, either. > > > Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
